This report on CASEL's Collaborating Districts Initiative presents key insights from this multiyear effort in 10 large school districts to help integrate social and emotional learning across all aspects of their work.

This brief suggests five ways that policymakers can integrate SEL approaches into their efforts
and identifies strategies that have been proposed in several Consolidated State Plans for ESSA funding. These examples are instructive for states as they work to finalize their plans for submission to the U.S. Department of Education.

Gayl, C. L. (2017) How State Planning for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Can Promote Students Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: An Examination of Five Key Strategies. Chicago: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

This website contains many resources to help school districts to plan their SEL implementation with sustainability in mind, From 2012 through 2015, a subset of those CASEL's partner districts worked with CASEL to investigate and develop strategies for financially sustaining districtwide SEL initiatives over multiple years.

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (2015). A Roadmap to Financial Sustainability.

This report reviews the available evidence on the economic value of social and emotional learning (SEL). The most important empirical finding is that each of the six interventions under consideration for improving SEL shows measurable benefits that exceed its costs, often by considerable amounts. The aggregate result also shows an average benefit-cost ratio of about 11 to 1 among the six interventions.